The Phenomenology of Algorithms

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I love repeating numbers, from 11:11 to binary code, I am always thinking about the meaning behind what appears to be mundane. This usually leads down a few fun rabbit holes, one of which began as I was teaching Professor Anna Everett’s essay “The Revolution Will Be Digitized: Afrocentricity and the Digital Public Sphere”, in which Everett discusses the hidden Hegelian dialectic programmed into her computer’s operating system (“Pri…